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Chanukah, Eight Crazy Nights for Jewish Experiential Education
This post continues our Chanukah series exploring the idea that: “Jews stand for light in the darkness, and every Jew can rekindle the flame of another.” We are pleased to feature a range of respondents discussing how this concept “illuminates” their perspectives and...
Kindling the Light of Motivation and Personal Meaning
In the introduction to our Chanukah series, Flora Yavelberg posed the following: This week we begin the celebration of Hanukkah, Hag Ha-Urim – the Festival of Lights. Light has many associations for us. Light is the first thing created in Genesis 1, the opposite of...
Sparks of Engagement
This post continues our Chanukah series exploring the idea that: “Jews stand for light in the darkness, and every Jew can rekindle the flame of another.” We are pleased to feature a range of respondents discussing how this concept “illuminates” their perspectives and...
Chanukah, Chinuch and Chanoch: A Case for Teacher Support on a Community-Wide Level
This post continues our Chanukah series exploring the idea that: “Jews stand for light in the darkness, and every Jew can rekindle the flame of another.” We are pleased to feature a range of respondents discussing how this concept “illuminates” their perspectives and...
Music Row and the Maccabees: Building Grit, Patience, and Pride in our Generation
This post continues our Chanukah series exploring the idea that: “Jews stand for light in the darkness, and every Jew can rekindle the flame of another.” We are pleased to feature a range of respondents discussing how this concept “illuminates” their perspectives and...
Why Santa is My Hero
This post continues our Chanukah series exploring the idea that: “Jews stand for light in the darkness, and every Jew can rekindle the flame of another.” We are pleased to feature a range of respondents discussing how this concept “illuminates” their perspectives and...
Chanukah, Preserving the Flame
This post continues our Chanukah series exploring the idea that: “Jews stand for light in the darkness, and every Jew can rekindle the flame of another.” We are pleased to feature a range of respondents discussing how this concept “illuminates” their perspectives and...
Jews Stand For Light in the Darkness
This piece introduces our 2013 Chanukah blog series. You can contribute to the conversation by describing your educational practice which lights "Jewish sparks" in the form below. On this blog last Chanukah, Yossi Prager, AVI CHAI’s North American Executive Director,...
Middle Income Affordability Programs: Early Results and Some Scholarship Anomalies
By: Dan Perla I first began to write about middle income tuition programs two years ago. In my first article on the subject, I wrote about nascent efforts in communities such as Boston, LA, Montreal and MetroWest, New Jersey. Shortly thereafter, I profiled Solomon...
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online & Blended Learning
By: Rachel Mohl Abrahams Last week at the iNacol conference, the Evergreen Education Group released the 2013 edition of “Keeping Pace with K-12 Online & Blended Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice.” This is the tenth annual report examining the...